Thoroughly updated and revised, the ninth edition of the highly regarded British Civilization:
An Introduction continues to be the ideal textbook on Britain, its country and people, religion …

Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture presents a radical re-reading of the cultural
history of the Irish state, by demonstrating through original historical research and insightful …

Ireland has passed through numerous identity crises in the last century, keeping the
meaning of Irishness in constant flux. This book explores how diverse writers have …

Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma analyses the treatment of memory and the past
in Bowen's writing through the lens of trauma theory. It draws on the theories of Jacques …

Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History: Enshrining a Fateful Memory offers a new,
concise interpretation of the history of the Irish in America. Author and distinguished …

Versions of Ireland brings a refined postcolonial theoretical optic to bear on many of the
most urgent questions within contemporary Irish cultural studies. Drawing on, and extending …

Through close readings of texts by playwright Anne Devlin, poet Medbh McGuckian, and
novelist Anna Burns, this book examines the ways Irish cultural production has been …

Captain Jack White DSO (1879 1946) is a fascinating yet neglected figure in Irish history.
Son of Field Marshal Sir George White VC, he became a Boer war hero, and crucially was …

And if you set it within the context of this kind of criticism, and relate it to the resurgence of
women and the vehemence of the Women's Move? ment in Ireland, then you have dialogue …

Over the past two centuries Ireland's renown has been as an emigrant nation, but since
1996, and associated with rapid economic growth, Ireland has emerged as an immigrant …